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A woman accused of plotting a house fire in which her six children died said
that her husband had been her “guardian angel”, rescuing her when she was a
19-year-old single mother at “rock bottom”, a court heard yesterday.

Mairead Philpott told the court that the father of her first child left her
when she told him she was pregnant, her next relationship had been abusive
but her future husband Michael was caring.

Mrs Philpott who, with her husband and a friend Paul Mosley, is on trial for
the manslaughter of the children, told Nottingham Crown Court: “He loved me